Reuters: US Senate Democrats call on Trump Medicare nominee Dr. Oz to pay $400,000 in avoided taxes
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician nominated by President Donald Trump to oversee the government's Medicare and Medicaid health plans, should commit to paying over $400,000 in taxes he avoided, two Democratic U.S. Senators said on Thursday.
Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee that will decide whether to advance Oz's nomination to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and committee member Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, in a letter to Oz seen by Reuters, said he also should commit to making public his tax filings for the past five years.
Oz may have neglected to pay $403,739 in Medicare taxes on more than $10 million of income from his media company from 2021 to 2023, a review of his financial records by the committee's Democratic staffers showed last week.
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By: Ahmed Aboulenein
Source: Reuters
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